Luciferianism
constitutes the nucleus of the ruling class religion. While there
are definitely political and economic rationales for elite criminality,
Luciferianism can account for the longevity of many of the oligarchs’
projects. Many of the longest and most brutal human endeavors have
been underpinned by some form of religious zealotry. The Crusades
testify to this historical fact. Likewise, the power elite’s ongoing
campaign to establish a socialist totalitarian global government has
Luciferianism to thank for both its longevity and frequently violent
character. In the mind of the modern oligarch, Luciferianism provides
religious legitimacy for otherwise morally questionable plans.

Luciferianism
is the product of religious engineering, which sociologist William
Sims Bainbridge defines as “the conscious, systematic, skilled creation
of a new religion” ("New Religions, Science, and Secularization,"
no pagination). In actuality, this is a tradition that even precedes
Bainbridge. It has been the practice of Freemasonry for years. It
was also the practice of Masonry’s religious and philosophical progenitors,
the ancient pagan Mystery cults. The inner doctrines of the Mesopotamian
secret societies provided the theological foundations for the Christian
and Judaic heresies, Kabbalism and Gnosticism. All modern Luciferian
philosophy finds “scientific” legitimacy in the Gnostic myth of Darwinism.
As evolutionary thought was popularized, variants of Luciferianism
were popularized along with it (particularly in the form of secular
humanism, which shall be examined shortly). A historical corollary
of this popularization has been the rise of several cults and mass
movements, exemplified by the various mystical sects and gurus of
the sixties counterculture. The metastasis of Luciferian thinking
continues to this very day.

Luciferianism
represents a radical revaluation of humanity’s ageless adversary:
Satan. It is the ultimate inversion of good and evil. The formula
for this inversion is reflected by the narrative paradigm of the Gnostic
Hypostasis myth. As opposed to the original Biblical version,
the Gnostic account represents a “revaluation of the Hebraic story
of the first man’s temptation, the desire of mere men to ‘be as gods’
by partaking of the tree of the ‘knowledge of good and evil’” (Raschke
26). Carl Raschke elaborates:

In The Hypostasis
of the Archons, an Egyptian Gnostic document, we read how the
traditional story of man’s disobedience toward God is reinterpreted
as a universal conflict between “knowledge” (gnosis) and the dark
“powers” (exousia) of the world, which bind the human soul in
ignorance. The Hypostasis describes man as a stepchild of Sophia
(“Wisdom”) created according to the “model” of aion, the imperishable
realm of eternity.

On
the other hand, it is neither God the Imperishable nor Sophia who
actually is responsible in the making of man. On the contrary, the
task is undertaken by the archons, the demonic powers who, because
of their “weakness,” entrap man in a material body and thus cut
him off from his blessed origin. They place him in paradise and
enjoin him against eating of the tree of knowledge. The prohibition,
however, is viewed by the author of the text not as a holy command
but as a malignant effort on the part of the inferior spirits to
prevent Adam from having true communion with the High God, from
gaining authentic gnosis. (26)

According
to this bowdlerization, Adam is consistently contacted by the High
God in hopes of reinitiating man’s quest for gnosis (26). The
archons intervene and create Eve to distract Adam from the pursuit
of gnosis (26-27). However, this Gnostic Eve is actually a
“sort of ‘undercover’ agent for the High God, who is charged with
divulging to Adam the truth that has been withheld from him” (27).
The archons manage to sabotage this covert operation by facilitating
sexual intercourse between Adam and Eve, an act that Gnostics contend
was designed to defile the “woman’s spiritual nature” (27). At this
juncture, the Hypostasis reintroduces a familiar antagonist
from the original Genesis account:

But
now the principle of feminine wisdom reappears in the form of the
serpent, called the “Instructor,” who tells the mortal pair to defy
the prohibition of the archons and eat of the tree of knowledge.
(27)

The
serpent successfully entices Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit,
but the “bodily defilement” of the woman prevents man from understanding
the true motive underpinning the act (27). Thus, humanity is fettered
by the archons’ “curse”, suggesting that the “orthodox theological
view of the violation of the command as ‘sin’ must be regarded anew
as the mindless failure to commit the act rightly in the first place”
(27). In this revisionist context, the serpent is no longer Satan,
but is an “incognito savior” instead (27). Meanwhile, God’s
role as benevolent Heavenly Father is vilified:

The
God of Genesis, who comes to reprimand Adam and Eve after their
transgression, is rudely caricatured in this tale as the “Arrogant
archon” who opposes the will of the authentic heavenly father. (27)

Of
course, within this Gnostic narrative, God incarnate is equally belittled.
Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh, is reduced to little more than
a forerunner of the coming Gnostic adept. According to the Gnostic
mythology, Jesus was but a mere “type” of this perfect man (27). He
came as a “teacher and an exemplar, to show others the path to illumination”
(27-28). The true messiah has yet to come. Equally, the serpent is
only a precursor to this messiah. He only initiates man’s journey
towards gnosis. The developmental voyage must be further facilitated
by the serpent’s predecessor, the Gnostic Christ. The Hypostasis
provides the paradigmatic template for all Luciferian mythologies.

Like
the Hypostasis, the binary opposition of Luciferian mythology
caricatures Jehovah as an oppressive tyrant. He becomes the “archon
of arrogance,” the embodiment of ignorance and religious superstition.
Satan, who retains his heavenly title of Lucifer, is the liberator
of humanity. Masonry, which acts as the contemporary retainer for
the ancient Mystery religion, reconceptualizes Satan in a similar
fashion. In Morals and Dogma, 33rd degree Freemason Albert
Pike candidly exalts the fallen angel:

LUCIFER,
the Light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to
the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he
who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds
feeble, sensual, or selfish Souls? Doubt it not. (321)

He
makes man aware of his own innate divinity and promises to unlock
the god within us all. This theme of apotheosis underpinned both Gnosticism
and the pagan Mystery religions. While Gnosticism’s origins with the
Ancient Mystery cults remains a source of contention amongst scholars,
its promises of liberation from humanity’s material side is strongly
akin to the old pagan Mystery’s variety of “psychic therapy” (28).
In addition, the Ancient Mystery religion promised the:

opportunity
to erase the curse of mortality by direct encounter with the patron
deity, or in many instances by actually undergoing an apotheosis,
a transfiguration of human into divine (28).

Like
some varieties of Satanism, Luciferianism does not depict the devil
as a literal metaphysical entity. Lucifer only symbolizes the cognitive
powers of man. He is the embodiment of science and reason. It is the
Luciferian’s religious conviction that these two facilitative forces
will dethrone God and apotheosize man. It comes as little surprise
that the radicals of the early revolutionary faith celebrated the
arrival of Darwinism. Evolutionary theory was the edifying “science”
of Promethean zealotry and the new secular religion of the scientific
dictatorship. According to Masonic scholar Wilmshurst, the completion
of human evolution involves man “becoming a god-like being and unifying
his consciousness with the Omniscient” (94).

During
the Enlightenment, Luciferianism was disseminated on the popular level
as secular humanism. All of the governing precepts of Luciferianism
are encompassed by secular humanism. This is made evident by the philosophy’s
rejection of theistic morality and enthronement of man as his own
absolute moral authority. While Luciferianism has no sacred texts,
Humanist Manifesto I and II succinctly delineate its central
tenets. Whittaker Chambers, former member of the communist underground
in America, eloquently summarizes this truth:

“Humanism
is not new. It is, in fact, man’s second oldest faith. Its promise
was whispered in the first days of Creation under the Tree of the
knowledge of Good and Evil: ‘Ye shall be as gods.’” (Qutd. in Baker
206)

Transhumanism
offers an updated, hi-tech variety of Luciferianism. The appellation
“Transhumanism” was coined by evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley
(“Transhumanism,” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, no pagination).
Huxley defined the transhuman condition as “man remaining man, but
transcending himself, by realizing new possibilities of and for his
human nature” (no pagination). However, by 1990, Dr. Max More would
radically redefine Transhumanism as follows:

Transhumanism
is a class of philosophies that seek to guide us towards a posthuman
condition. Transhumanism shares many elements of humanism, including
a respect for reason and science, a commitment to progress, and
a valuing of human (or transhuman) existence in this life… Transhumanism
differs from humanism in recognizing and anticipating the radical
alterations in the nature and possibilities of our lives resulting
from various sciences and technologies… (No pagination)

Transhumanism
advocates the use of nanotechnology, biotechnology, cognitive science,
and information technology to propel humanity into a “posthuman” condition.
Once he has arrived at this condition, man will cease to be man. He
will become a machine, immune to death and all the other “weaknesses”
intrinsic to his former human condition. The ultimate objective is
to become a god. Transhumanism is closely aligned with the cult of
artificial intelligence. In the very influential book The Age of
Spiritual Machines, AI high priest Ray Kurzweil asserts that technological
immortality could be achieved through magnetic resonance imaging or
some technique of reading and replicating the human brain’s neural
structure within a computer (“Technological Immortality,” no pagination).
Through the merger of computers and humans, Kurzweil believes that
man will “become god-like spirits inhabiting cyberspace as well as
the material universe” (no pagination).

Following
the Biblical revisionist tradition of the Gnostic Hypostasis
myth, Transhumanists invert the roles of God and Satan. In an essay
entitled “In Praise of the Devil,” Transhumanist ideologue Max More
depicts Lucifer as a heroic rebel against a tyrannical God:

The
Devil—-Lucifer--is a force for good (where I define 'good' simply
as that which I value, not wanting to imply any universal validity
or necessity to the orientation). 'Lucifer' means 'light-bringer'
and this should begin to clue us in to his symbolic importance.
The story is that God threw Lucifer out of Heaven because Lucifer
had started to question God and was spreading dissension among the
angels. We must remember that this story is told from the point
of view of the Godists (if I may coin a term) and not from that
of the Luciferians (I will use this term to distinguish us from
the official Satanists with whom I have fundamental differences).
The truth may just as easily be that Lucifer resigned from heaven.
(No pagination)

According
to More, Lucifer probably exiled himself out of moral outrage towards
the oppressive Jehovah:

God,
being the well-documented sadist that he is, no doubt wanted to
keep Lucifer around so that he could punish him and try to get him
back under his (God's) power. Probably what really happened was
that Lucifer came to hate God's kingdom, his sadism, his demand
for slavish conformity and obedience, his psychotic rage at any
display of independent thinking and behavior. Lucifer realized that
he could never fully think for himself and could certainly not act
on his independent thinking so long as he was under God's control.
Therefore he left Heaven, that terrible spiritual-State ruled by
the cosmic sadist Jehovah, and was accompanied by some of the angels
who had had enough courage to question God's authority and his value-perspective.
(No pagination)

Lucifer
is the embodiment of reason, of intelligence, of critical thought.
He stands against the dogma of God and all other dogmas. He stands
for the exploration of new ideas and new perspectives in the pursuit
of truth. (No pagination)

Lucifer
is even considered a patron saint by some Transhumanists (“Transtopian
Symbolism,” no pagination). Transhumanism retains the paradigmatic
character of Luciferianism, albeit in a futurist context. Worse still,
Transhumanism is hardly some marginalized cult. Richard Hayes, executive
director of the Center for Genetics and Society, elaborates:

Last
June at Yale University, the World Transhumanist Association held
its first national conference. The Transhumanists have chapters
in more than 20 countries and advocate the breeding of "genetically
enriched" forms of "post-human" beings. Other advocates of the new
techno-eugenics, such as Princeton University professor Lee Silver,
predict that by the end of this century, "All aspects of the economy,
the media, the entertainment industry, and the knowledge industry
[will be] controlled by members of the GenRich class. . .Naturals
[will] work as low-paid service providers or as laborers. . ." (No
pagination)

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With
a growing body of academic luminaries and a techno-eugenical vision
for the future, Transhumanism is carrying the banner of Luciferianism
into the 21st century. Through genetic engineering and biotechnological
augmentation of the physical body, Transhumanists are attempting to
achieve the very same objective of their patron saint. I will ascend
into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God:

I
will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of
the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will
be like the most High. (Isaiah 14:13-14)

This
declaration reflects the aspirations of the power elite as well. Whatever
form the Luciferian religion assumes throughout the years, its goal
remains the same: Apotheosis.

Author
Phillip D. Collins acted as the editor for The Hidden Face of Terrorism.
He has also written articles for Paranoia Magazine, MKzine, NewsWithViews.com,
and B.I.P.E.D.: The Official Website of Darwinian Dissent and Conspiracy
Archive. He
has an Associate of Arts and Science.

Currently,
he is studying for a bachelor's degree in Communications at Wright State
University. During the course of his seven-year college career, Phillip
has studied philosophy, religion, and classic literature. He also co-authored
the book, The Ascendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship: An Examination
of Epistemic Autocracy, From the 19th to the 21st Century, which is available
at: [Link]